A WARM WELCOME TO LIVERPOOL
Tony Reeves Chief Executive Liverpool City Council
YOUR EVENT SUPPORT TEAM Liverpool Convention Bureau’s award-winning team of local experts are here to work in partnership with you to ensure your event is the very best it can be. All our services are offered free of charge and include: • Venue finding for conferences and events • Accommodation booking services • Social programme inspiration • Bid development and support • Local industry knowledge and connections https://www.liverpoolconventionbureau.com/ @meetliverpool +44 (0) 151 233 5933 conferences@marketingliverpool.co.uk
A warm welcome to Liverpool – a confident, forward- looking international city with an incredible history and an exciting future. Regeneration has been key to the transformation of the city over the last decade. We have strengths in many sectors, including health and life sciences, as well as three excellent universities. We offer award-winning conference and convention facilities at ACC Liverpool on the city’s waterfront. Nearby, you will find a choice of hotels and venues suitable for corporate events, together with a vibrant nightlife. We are a compact, easy to navigate city with a great food, shopping and rich cultural scene. Getting to Liverpool by road and rail is easy, and we have two international airports nearby. You are guaranteed a friendly welcome in Liverpool, and our staff are committed to going above and beyond to provide a personalised experience that will make your event a success.
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SENSATIONAL AS STANDARD
Liverpool is unconventional, revolutionary, transformational and sensational. A state-of- the- art convention centre, grand university buildings, Premier League football stadia, Beatles venues, cathedrals, museums, theatres or a stately home; this region has it all
Liverpool event campus A world-class residential venue located on the banks of Liverpool’s world heritage waterfront, Liverpool event campus comprises ACC Liverpool, the 11,000-seat M&S Bank Arena Liverpool and Exhibition Centre Liverpool. An impressive track record in hosting major national and international conferences, a highly professional and experienced team to support you and high quality, state-of-the-art facilities, Liverpool event campus is the perfect site for your next event. THE NUMBERS 1,350-seat auditorium 658 on-site hotel rooms 80-3,000 banquet 8,100 sqm combined exhibition space Only purpose-built interconnected arena, convention and exhibition centre in Europe.
“ACC Liverpool is a superb building, not just outside, architecturally, but inside, with the flow of the spaces, and a support staff that are absolutely superb.” Barry Pizer, paediatric oncologist at Alder Hey Children’s Hospital Liverpool https://www.accliverpool.com/
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RCP at The Spine International-standard conference space in one of the world’s healthiest buildings. Offering inspiring panoramic views across the city, world-leading education and training facilities and high-tech conference facilities, the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) is proud to announce its new presence in Liverpool’s £1 billion Knowledge Quarter development project. RCP at The Spine will be one of the world’s healthiest workspaces and among the first to achieve the international WELL standard of modern building design for mental health and physical wellbeing. It will provide an impressive new level of flexible meeting spaces including an innovative Harvard-style lecture theatre. “The Royal College of Physicians has both been celebrating its 500th anniversary and about to open a brand new chapter in its history with an amazing building that will embody our commitment to wellbeing as we bring high quality research, medical training, examination and conference facilities to Liverpool and work more closely with our regional members.” Professor Andrew Goddard, president, The Royal College of Physicians www.rcplondon.ac.uk/rcpthespine University of Liverpool An impressive choice of venues to host your event with year-round availability, from contemporary, spacious conference rooms to stunning banqueting facilities. The original red brick building, now the Victoria Gallery and Museum, built in 1892 is a truly unique venue. A variety of lecture theatres and flexible spaces for up to 900 delegates across the University campus. Located within a short walk of the main railway station, the University of Liverpool has an unrivalled position in the heart of the city. “We recently held a joint meeting between the British Society of Matrix Biology (BSMB) and Matrix Biology Ireland (MBI). It attracted 175 delegates from the UK, Europe and USA and we held it at the University of Liverpool to highlight its strength in this discipline. The Central Teaching Hub is also a beautiful and spacious setting.” George Bou-Gharios, Professor of Matrix biology https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/conferences-and-events/
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A GLOBAL GATEWAY Liverpool City Region offers unparalleled access to opportunities across industries with deep sector expertise, investment by major brands, rise of innovative start-ups, international access to new markets and a world-class skills pipeline, all backed by supportive local partners Creative Digital and Tech The Knowledge Quarter
Says Colin Sinclair, CEO: “Knowledge Quarter Liverpool is a huge 450-acre urban innovation District. It’s home to the largest cluster of science, health, education and cultural assets in the city region and is driving Liverpool’s Knowledge Economy forward. As outlined in the Government Science and Innovation Audit, Liverpool is world-leading in fighting infectious disease, materials chemistry, high performance computing and AI making the work at Liverpool Science Park, Materials Innovation Factory, Accelerator and Sensor City to commercialise research so crucial.”
An independent Gaming Centre of Excellence An internationally recognised screen cluster Fast growing Creative & Tech sectors UNESCO City of Music Top 10 UK City for Immersive Technology
Sensor City: one of the world's only incubators dedicated to the development and application of sensor and IoT (Internet of Things) technologies. “Liverpool is a hotbed of creative technology companies using new and emerging technologies across a range of applications and sectors. Recently selected as a top 10 location for immersive tech, the region demonstrates both strong academic leadership and commercial application. Future thinking companies should be considering Liverpool for their next event for its great A designated Centre for Offshore Renewable Engineering, Liverpool is home to one of the world’s largest concentration of offshore wind farms. The first commercial deployment of the world’s largest wind turbines is set to boost offshore wind supply-chain opportunities for years to come. Maritime & Logistics £1 billion investment in infrastructure £400 million Liverpool2 Deep Water Terminal takes 95 per cent of the world's largest ships Home to 4 of the world's top 6 shipping lanes creative vibe.” Invest Liverpool Energy and Environment
SciTech Daresbury A national research and innovation campus focused on the development and growth of innovative technology companies in collaboration with university partners and Daresbury laboratory, aiming to build a collaborative business and tech community working with external partners to develop and commercialise new technology. Says John Leake, Business Development Manager: “Last year seven new
international companies set up with us. For events, we offer a concentration of technology companies in areas like advanced engineering and materials, life sciences and health and digital and creative technologies. The opportunity is there to attract people from all around the world.”
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THE NEXT INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION STARTS HERE
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Home to a leading European bio-manufacturing cluster, the largest supercomputing facility for industrial applications in the UK and the highest concentration of robotics for materials science in the world, Liverpool is leading the way on Industry 4.0: the fourth industrial revolution
With specialisms in Virtual Reality, Internet of Things, Sensors, Big Data and Big Science, the city region is home to giants such as Unilever, Pilkingtons, Jaguar Land Rover – where a car is produced every 80 seconds – and Astra Zeneca. The engine of growth drivers are the small, agile, innovative SMEs that are so vital to the economy.
“We have some amazing scientific assets,” says Simon Reid, Head of Advanced Manufacturing Liverpool City Region Local Enterprise Partnership. “The Virtual Engineering Centre, one of the UK’s pioneers in digitalisation and virtualisation; Sensor City, a joint venture between the University of Liverpool and Liverpool John Moores: a designated zone where companies can practise using sensor processes and improve products and marketing, and the Materials Innovation Factory, a world leader in molecular science and surface technologies. Delegates can take tours to see Big Science and transformational scientific practice.”
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Digital Manufacturing Week Digital Manufacturing Week is a national festival of advanced manufacturing held annually in Liverpool. In 2019, 6,000 attendees from manufacturing, technology and finance will visit more than 150 exhibitors and choose from 200 free-to-attend presentations sessions.
“For the past two years we have brought Digital Manufacturing Week to Exhibition Centre Liverpool,” says Nick Hussey, CEO Manufacturing Magazine. “We have had a fantastic result, really good attendance and support from Liverpool. It makes a massive difference to have a partner that helps you develop an event in the right way.
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“Liverpool has a really strong culture of developing innovative technologies and huge initiatives such as LCR 4.0, and enables us to use facilities around the city such as university incubators. “The vibrancy of the whole NW region, particularly regarding manufacturing, creative and tech-based industries and the way they have coalesced around DMW has been really powerful for us. Delegates are really impressed with the vibrancy of the city, the quality and reasonable price of the hotels. We have grown nationally and internationally, we attract a lot more international delegates and exhibitors. We have doubled our numbers since moving to Liverpool. And this year’s event will be even bigger.”
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DRIVING INNOVATION
Liverpool’s health and life sciences sector is a global leader. Part of the Liverpool-Manchester life sciences corridor, one of the UK’s top clusters of biomedical activity, the sector drives innovation and development, attracting both large and small companies and leading experts and specialists “The life science sector is really unique. The School of Tropical Medicine, the oldest institution of its kind in the world, makes us an important centre for infectious disease research; we are one of Europe’s largest biomanufacturing centres; we have a fantastic university network working in all areas of life sciences, and an amazing hospital network.” Invest Liverpool At the heart of the life sciences cluster, The Knowledge Quarter is fast becoming one of the world’s leading innovation districts and, with completion of its new hospitals, will be one of the largest academic and clinical campuses in the UK. The Quarter is home to CEIDR – The Centre of Excellence in Infectious Diseases Research. CEIDR develops partnerships with industry, applying the technologies, expertise and resources of the University of Liverpool, the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, associated NHS Trusts and overseas partners in the rapid translation of infectious diseases research, with a primary focus to combat the threats of resistance to public health across the globe. Specialisms Infectious Diseases; Precision Medicine; Children’s Health; Veterinary Science; Independent Living; and Big Data, Sensors and Internet of Things. Companies AstraZeneca; Allergan; Baxter International; Bristol-Myers Squibb; Lilly; Nestlé Health Science; Seqirus and Unilever.
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CASE STUDY: The 5th Global Symposium on Health Systems Research 2018
Venue: ACC Liverpool Dates: October 2018 Number of Delegates: 2,400
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Vision: Globally connected health systems research and policy communities contribute to the attainment of better health, equity and well-being. Mission: Convene researchers, policy-makers and implementers from around the world to develop the field of health systems research and unleash their collective capacity to create, share and apply knowledge to strengthen health systems.
“Having the event here definitely generated a legacy for the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine and presented an excellent opportunity for us to really put our health systems and research portfolio on the global map.” Sally Theobald, Chair in Social Science and International Health
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QUOTES
“Liverpool was built on world first achievements: in health and life sciences we had the first school in tropical medicine, the UK's first Nobel Prize for work on malaria, the first medical officer for public health and very important developments in X-ray technology. Around five billion per year is spent in the sector, known for some of the most important developments in medicine and health” Dr Andrew Rose, Life Science and Health Sector Manager Liverpool City Region Local Enterprise Partnership
“We have a great range of experts in their fields in health and life sciences across all our facilities, which means for events we can draw on their expertise for support” Matt Biagetti, Investment Manager, Invest Liverpool “Liverpool was selected for RCP North for several reasons. Liverpool is a destination venue, so much is here, we know that people won’t just have a great learning or conference experience, they will have a great experience, full stop. The people in Liverpool are happy, they make it worth coming here” David Parker, Congress and Events RCP “With our partnerships between University of Liverpool and Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, we offer expertise to potential commercial partners across areas including diagnostics, drug development, vaccines and insecticides, right through to clinical trials” Dr Fiona Marston, Director, CEIDR
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GETTING HERE
Liverpool and Manchester airports are within a 45-minute drive of the city centre Liverpool John Lennon Airport has flights to all major European business centres Manchester Airport has direct flights to 200 destinations plus extensive freight and logistics facilities to support the import and export of goods to and from all major global markets For the UK market, the region is well-connected: London is just two hours away by train – with services every hour into the city. There are also direct rail services to Manchester, Birmingham, Leeds, Sheffield, Nottingham and others. Motorway connections put the vast majority of UK cities within a four-hour drive time.
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